One of my fellow fedora artTeam members, Martin Sourada has created a great tutorial for creating icons with an ‘on the table’ perspective.
This particular tutorial links closely to the echo icon theme that the fedora artTeam are working on at the moment, but contains useful elements that can help with all icon design in inkscape.

I can tell that this is not the first time you write about the topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?
Hey, so when i do this i made a small icon using the 64×64 template. but when i save it and go to post it onto a profile for a website it makes a big black box in the middle and it erases the text i put on it. Does anyone know how to fix it?